2011 January 25 Poker News, Events and Happenings
This week, “The Showdown” with Jon Friedberg welcomes recent Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday winner Shaun Deeb. The top-tier poker pro sits at #44 worldwide in the PocketFives.com Rankings and has maintained his place atop the industry for the past five years. Check out Part 1 and Part 2.
The Day 1 flights are over and Oliver Keefe is the man at the top of the Day 1c leaderboard. Find out who else made their way to Day 2, the Million Dollar Cash Game, and more in this Aussie Millions recap.
The European Poker Tour Deauville kicked off its Main Event on Monday. Guillaume De La Gorce is the man on top of the leaderboard from the Day 1a flight.
If you’re looking for the news on David Saab’s recent arrest, the huge prize pool from the Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday, and more, then you’ve come to the right place. You can find it all in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
Full Tilt Poker is pulling out all the stops this week, doubling the guarantees on its tournaments to the tune of $30 million. The unique promotion resulted in one of the largest $1K Mondays ever held.
Two days of play are in the books at the Southern Poker Championship, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). From a starting grid of 214 players, a total of 66 remain. Kevin Elias paces the survivors with a stack of 229,900, while brand name poker pros like Lee Markholt and Full Tilt Poker’s Gavin Smith are hot on his heels.
Yesterday, Bluff Magazine revealed the winners of its sixth annual Reader’s Choice Awards, a list that featured several repeat winners along with a bevy of new honorees. The nominees were announced in the first week of December and Bluff opened the voting to the poker community via the internet. The polls for the 14 categories closed on January 16th.
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